Roswell? Aurora? Kapustin Yar? Don't Believe it

It seems to me that Ufologists waste a great deal of their time looking for evidence that there have been over 60+ alleged "flying saucer" crashes (most of them in the United States) and the military has enough aliens to populate Manhattan.

These aliens are supposed to use such advanced travel systems that they can vanish on the spot, re-appear, perform gravity defying manoeuvres and all this after avoiding meteors/meteorites/micro-meteors plus all the other hazards of space travel.  Rockets and bullets and even artillery bombardments do not affect them.

One gets to Roswell, New Mexico, develops a problem and crashes killing all on board.  The Roswell incident has been a big boost to the towns economy and with over 100+ people all having "vivid recall" of events in 1947 I'm sure there is more to milk.  I'm sure more witnesses will appear.

Roswell got the financial boost it needed once Ufologists decided there was something -anything- to latch on to after over 30 years of avoiding the incident that first appeared as a snippet in Frank Scully's Behind The Flying Saucers.


The alleged crash at Aurora, Texas in 1897 needed such a boost but never really got it.  The town had been decimated by a fever and much more and the promised railway line never happened.  We know that there is no grave holding an alien body. In fact, not one thing claimed about any flying saucer crash in Aurora has proven true other than the fact that UFO investigators found that there was a well and wind tower.  Okay, a well and a wind tower. Believe me, there are Ufologists who claim that is proof of the incident.

While running the AOP Bureau I had to deal with quite a few "UFO explosions" and debris left behind.  I also had the dubious pleasure of scrambling over 'UFO wreckage' and once even got offered photographs of a dead alien.

"But" say the Ufologists, "We have the FBI telex message proving that a flying saucer crashed at Roswell!" Hmm. Let's look at what the Telex says:

FBI DALLAS              7-8-47          6-17 PM

DIRECTOR AND SAC, CINCINNATI            URGENT

FLYING DISC, INFORMATION CONCERNING.   MAJOR CURTAN, HEADQUARTERS

EIGHTH AIR FORCE, TELEPHONICALLY ADVISED THIS OFFICE THAT AN OBJECT

PURPORTING TO BE A FLYING DISC WAS RE COVERED NEAR ROSWELL, NEW

MEXICO, THIS DATE.   THE DISC IS HEXAGONAL IN SHAPE AND WAS SUSPENDED

FROM A BALLON BY A CABLE, WHICH BALLON WAS APPROXIMATELY TWENTY

FEET IN DIAMETER.   MAJOR CURTAN FURTHER ADVISED THAT THE OBJECT 

FOUND RESEMBLES A HIGH ALTITUDE WEATHER BALLOON WITH A RADAR

REFLECTOR, BUT THAT TELEPHONIC CONVERSATION BETWEEN THEIR OFFICE

AND WRIGHT FIELD HAD NOT xxxxxxxxxx BORNE OUT THIS BELIEF.   DISC AND

BALLOON BEING TRANSPORTED TO WRIGHT FIELD BY SPECIAL PLANE FOR EXAMIN

INFORMATION PROVIDED THIS OFFICE BECAUSE OF NATIONAL INTEREST IN CASE

xxxx AND FACT THAT NATIONAL BROADCASTING COMPANY, ASSOCIATED PRESS, A

OTHERS ATTEMPTING TO BREAK STORY OF LOCATION OF DISC TODAY.   MAJOR

CURTAN ADVISED WOULD REQUEST WRIGHT FIELD TO ADVISE CINCINNATI

OFFICE RESULTS OF EXAMINATION.  NO FURTHER INVESTIGATION BEING

CONDUCTED.

        WYLY

Now, let’s look at this evidence (if in writing only) that a flying saucer did crash at Roswell: “The  

disc is hexagonal in shape and was suspended by a cable.” So this interstellar craft was suspended by 

a cable to what resembled a weather balloon with a radar reflector.  At the time Project Mogul was very

hush-hush so no one would tell even the FBI what this was.

 Photographs of U.S.A.A.F. officers holding tin-foil like material may show some of the balloon, or

 it could be fake material so that Soviet agents could not see what the real material looked like.  But

 that was it. If NASA thought it could get to the Moon using a balloon and a piece of cable I’m sure 

they would have tried.  

But Ufologists can't get the story straight.  The recollections of witnesses are "as clear to them as though it 

was yesterday" but then what of the discrepancies, some quite big in these statements? "There are bound to 

be the odd difference after all these years" -?

And the rest of the story that Jessy Marcel was immediately sent off with the wreckage.  At that same time 

he is photographed at the press conference displaying the silver material.  Leonard H. Stringfield once told me 

at a BUFORA conference that "these crashed UFO stories are going to explode!" 

He was right.

And Russians shooting down flying saucers and retrieving the dead or living crews? The AOP B did have

people operating in the former Soviet Union and every single story fell flat.

I'll make this clear because, after almost 30 years of looking it is what I have found.  There is absolutely not

 one solid piece of evidence that any extra-terrestrial craft ever crashed on Earth and it and its crew

were retrieved by any government.

How good are 'eye-witness' statements?  Well, I can claim here and now that I have been time travelling and

who can prove it either way? I bet in a year I could collect a good few witnesses to the event.

We need good solid evidence: material and statements gathered at the time. 

If Ufologists concentrated on the reports rather than the mythology perhaps they might have had the solution

to the UFO riddle by now.                                                  

Star-Child Fraud

Just finished one of the laster chapters in my next book.  This chapter exposes the utter fraud of the so-called 'Star-Child' skull.  Be interesting to see what happens when the book ispublished.

Red Paper Canids

Paperback,

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Up-dated 2011 edition includes section on sarcoptic mange in foxes and treatment plus a list of wildlife sanctuaries and rescue centres in the UK.

 

 

By the 1700s the British fox was on the verge of extinction and about to follow the bear and wolf having been hunted for sport for centuries. The answer was to import thousands of foxes per year for sport. But foxes kept dying out so jackals were tried. Some were caught, some escaped. Even wolves and coyote were released for hunting.

 

 

The summation of over 30 years research reveals the damnable lie of “pest control” hunting but also reveals the cruelty the animals were subject to and how private menageries as well as travelling shows helped provide the British and Irish countryside with some incredible events.

 

 

The Girt Dog of Ennerdale is also dealt with in detail.

 

 

http://www.lulu.com/product/paperback/the-red-papercanines-vol1/18605332

First Oarfish ever filmed alive...

There I was trawling You Tube for anything interesting when I found this. Fantastic footage and the first time a live Oarfish has ever been filmed.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=lvRqqwBoyx8

See here for a little background info and video footage:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPJH0_r-r-w

A Couple of snippets

The Canadian Centre for Fortean Zoology has an interesting post and more photographs of the "Sarich" skull that was found in Wales.  As I commented oon the site this is a goat skull.

There is a link on the blogroll to the site.

Also, over on the Patagonian Monsters blog (again, see blogroll) there is video footage of the "Cabralito" lake monster seen in Salta, Argentina.  A local says its an otter and I have to admit it does look very much like an otter.

Please, visit the sites on the blog roll -particularly the Bigfoot Discovery Project/Museum- if you get time.

World-first hybrid shark found off Australia

VERY interesting item.  Evolution in progress!

By Amy Coopes | AFP – 12 hours ago

Scientists said on Tuesday that they had discovered the world's first hybrid sharks in Australian waters, a potential sign the predators were adapting to cope with climate change.

 

The mating of the local Australian black-tip shark with its global counterpart, the common black-tip, was an unprecedented discovery with implications for the entire shark world, said lead researcher Jess Morgan. "It's very surprising because no one's ever seen shark hybrids before, this is not a common occurrence by any stretch of the imagination," Morgan, from the University of Queensland, told AFP.

"This is evolution in action."

Colin Simpfendorfer, a partner in Morgan's research from James Cook University, said initial studies suggested the hybrid species was relatively robust, with a number of generations discovered across 57 specimens.

The find was made during cataloguing work off Australia's east coast when Morgan said genetic testing showed certain sharks to be one species when physically they looked to be another.

The Australian black-tip is slightly smaller than its common cousin and can only live in tropical waters, but its hybrid offspring have been found 2,000 kilometres down the coast, in cooler seas.

It means the Australian black-tip could be adapting to ensure its survival as sea temperatures change because of global warming.

"If it hybridises with the common species it can effectively shift its range further south into cooler waters, so the effect of this hybridising is a range expansion," Morgan said.

"It's enabled a species restricted to the tropics to move into temperate waters."

Climate change and human fishing are some of the potential triggers being investigated by the team, with further genetic mapping also planned to examine whether it was an ancient process just discovered or a more recent phenomenon.

If the hybrid was found to be stronger than its parent species -- a literal survival of the fittest -- Simpfendorfer said it may eventually outlast its so-called pure-bred predecessors.

"We don't know whether that's the case here, but certainly we know that they are viable, they reproduce and that there are multiple generations of hybrids now that we can see from the genetic roadmap that we've generated from these animals," he said.

"Certainly it appears that they are fairly fit individuals."

The hybrids were extraorindarily abundant, accounting for up to 20 percent of black-tip populations in some areas, but Morgan said that didn't appear to be at the expense of their single-breed parents, adding to the mystery.

Simpfendorfer said the study, published late last month in Conservation Genetics, could challenge traditional ideas of how sharks had and were continuing to evolve.

"We thought we understood how species of sharks have separated, but what this is telling us is that in reality we probably don't fully understand the mechanisms that keep species of shark separate," he said.
"And in fact, this may be happening in more species than these two."

Some Surprises....

When you write a blog you see the stats. Nice high stats.  However, you always wonder "Why isn't anyone commenting?"  That mystery may never be solved but a thank you to all those who do visit.

I like the fact that the stats map shows the blog is visited by people from Canada, the USA, a few in South America and some in northern Europe and, of course, the UK. But look at that spread across what used to be the Soviet Union and Eurasia. My traffic checker tells me there are a LOT of readers there.  Maybe I need to include more on the Almas, yeti, etc.?

But remember, even if your English is not great I'd still like to hear from you!